CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR.

(Meliora's POV)

My body began to shake as I saw the whole thing unfold in front of me. Hell no. I was dumbfounded. I just didn't know where to start from or even what to do, at this point I just stared at Martha who had injected him with the contents in the syringe.

I staggered as I held the walls of the hallways trying to catch my breath, I stared back at Brian as I feared that he wasn't breathing anymore.

“What have you done Martha?” I managed to talk as I looked at her. She stared back at me without uttering any word.

“Brian, can you hear me, Brian can you hear me?” Martha asked as her eyes blinked, a tear escaped from her eyes as she looked at his body on the floor.

A lot of thoughts ran into mind as I began to wonder, how on earth again Martha was with a syringe? What was actually going on? This was actually a game that someone had orchestrated, and we were blindly playing the games with him or her if I was right.

At this point Elder Morris got to where we all stood as she cleared her throat.

“Do not panic, it's normal, this is how it should be, he is going to be fine” she said as she looked at Martha.

However, she hinted at the guards and then immediately, they wore some gloves on and then took him out of the hallway to somewhere I couldn't say.

Martha didn't say a word after Elder Morris had said that. Almost everyone had started leaving the hallway, it was clear that the Alpha didn't see any of this that happened, he must have questioned Elder Morris of her actions.

As Martha was about to follow Brian's body behind the guards I called out her name for the last time.

“Martha, why? " I asked with tears flowing down my checks 

Martha looked at me, then she shook her head before leaving me behind with Elder Morris.

This felt like a dream, and the more I tried to wake from this nightmare, I realized that this was indeed a reality. Martha walked quickly as she followed the guards to see where Brian was being taken to or probably going to be kept.

I buried my head as I continued to cry silently, I just didn't know how the whole happy place had just turned into a den of cries just overnight, and I was not understanding what was going on exactly.

Everything didn't just seem right with me, and it felt like history was about to repeat itself again. What I feared the most was about to happen, and I hated myself for this.

Definitely, I was lost in thoughts to have been brought back to reality by Elder Morris again.

“You failed Liora, you also defied my orders” she said with a rigid tone as she stared at me.

“I did, but all I did was the best thing every other woman out there would do” I spoke up as I stared at her with my eyes wide open.

“Every woman would do that, but not the few sensible ones,” she said with a hint of sarcasm in her voice.

“What do you mean Elder Morris?” I asked as I looked at her

Was she trying to say I wasn't sensible, and that if I was sensible I would have injected Brian before all of this could happen?

“I made a mistake to say Martha was weak the other time, Did you see how brave she is?” She said, turning as she looked at the corners close to the walls.

“Someone manipulated her, you know it” I said as I closed my eyes not trying to look at her face.

“That's not my business, You would have to face some consequences Liora” she said staring fiercely into my eyes.

However, she smiled as she walked away, I could only hear the last words from her wife's mouth.

“Since I'm here, I'm going to make it easier for you, it's not going to be a tough punishment” she said as she walked away.

This was never going to happen, for all I knew I didn't commit any crime. If there was anyone to be punished, it was Elder Morris. We were supposed to save lives and not to kill them. How on earth was I supposed to kill someone who had come to be saved.

It seemed like I was ready to expose the atrocities to the Alpha, he alone could judge this, and with this I knew the rumors of the Rauna Curse was going to spread and a lot of people from the pack were going to panic. 

I knew, but the truth needed to be told, apparently, I knew there was something missing and I needed to get to the root of it.

The whole Rauna Curse, the kill, the whole actions felt like it was an orchestrated game by someone in the pack which I didn't know. I think the best thing to save myself was finding who was behind all of this, and why he or she orchestrated this.

I sat alone there as I sobbed silently, I didn't know what to do. I had thought of going to see Martha, but to think of it, it seemed like Martha had been manipulated, she wouldn't listen to me not even now.

I closed my eyes for some seconds as I tried to think of what to do, but it wasn't coming. It felt like I was being framed again for something that I do not know about just like the other time with Zoey, my step-sister and her mother.

The more I thought about it, it seemed like I had been a fool all my life to easily trust people and have them as a company. I wouldn't have believed that Elder Morris was going to do this to me, I trusted her and believed her.

I opened my eyes slowly as I stared at the surroundings, it was at this point, I knew that I needed to make a change to a lot of things regarding my life, I was never going to be used anymore, I slowly withdraw myself from the wall I had leaned on as I took a turn.

Yes, this was a turn to a new life, a turn to finding the best part and version of myself, a turn to making sure that I was not fooled, and a turn to find out this game and why exactly and how I needed to play this game.